Pradeep Sarkar after delivering a critical and box office success with his debut feature Parineeta had faltered in his next one, Laga Chunari Mein Daag but with Lafangey Parindey he has managed to get back in form and has succeeded in giving masala entertainer. The only thing that goes against it are the predictable plot points and the slow pace. But despite its few flaws LP is still worth a watch for its unusual lead pair Neil and Deepika and good direction aided by nice music.

Boy hates mushy love stories, doesn’t believe in love and all those things that come along with it whereas the girl is a big believer in romance and is living her own perfect love story with a childhood pal. Boy meets this girl and don’t get along but eventually love strikes! First for the girl but the boy rejects it explaining that he only thought of her as a friend. Soon love strikes him too but by then it is too late. He tries to woo her back and ends up doing all those mushy things that he hated in the first place. Punit Malhotra’s debut directorial venture, I Hate Luv Storys works well when it tries to poke fun at these elements but eventually falls in the same clichéd trap when it comes to delivering as a film.

There is a lingering moment towards the end of this unvarnished look at life, way beyond the poverty line, when the village strewn with vehicles, equipments and over-curious mediapersons is suddenly emptied out. What we are left to look at is a village, a family, a life and a situation on the same threshold of pain, humiliation, hunger, and poverty, where the whole rigmarole had started. The silence between that moment of excruciating emptying-out and embracing that emptiness is so palpable that we the audience cannot miss its significance.

Aamir Hussain Khan hails from a typically staunch, conservative and orthodox Muslim family originating from the Khan clan of Peshawar. Belonging to the Shia clan he has never hidden the fact that right from childhood he was quite liberal minded and moreover a rebel person at heart. He has always made it very clear that more than believing in and having total faith in Islamic religion he has always and completely reposed his faith in ‘Allah’(God), the one and only supreme power of the entire universe.